Construction and engineering

Our construction and engineering practice provides specialist, in-depth expertise for clients across the full spectrum of the construction industry including developers, occupiers, contractors, institutions, banks, consultants and insurers.

We advise on procurement strategies, development agreements, building contracts, professional appointments, warranties, guarantees and bonds, risk and project management and dispute avoidance. In addition, our litigators are able to offer strategic and tactical advice to best protect our clients in the event of a dispute arising.

Our work often involves working closely with the firm's real estate lawyers and we can call on support from specialists elsewhere in the firm to advise on matters such as competition, the EU procurement rules, tax and finance.

Key areas of expertise include:

Offices and commercial developments: We work with major developers on office schemes, mixed use developments, town centre regeneration and house building. Our experience of different procurement routes and our ability to anticipate the requirements of funders and end users assists the efficient and timely delivery of each project.

Hotels and leisure: We have particular expertise in the construction of hotels and other leisure developments, acting for developers, end users and funders / investors from the luxury and boutique end of the market to the budget sector.

Occupiers: We advise a range of office, industrial and retail businesses on the procurement of new build premises and other facilities as well as fitting out and reconfiguration works. This includes clients in the investment banking, distribution, brewing, healthcare and retail sectors.

Infrastructure and regeneration: Our experience of infrastructure and regeneration projects includes advising on the structuring and development of utility networks and electricity infrastructure, HVDC sub-sea projects, new build renewable energy facilities (along with the construction and operation elements of secondary market investments) and marine works. We advise on EPC, ICC, FIDIC and bespoke forms of contract.

Education: We have acted for a number of sixth form colleges, higher education establishments, public schools and charitable foundations in relation to both public sector and privately funded development projects.

Expertise:

Recent work

Associated British Ports

Advising Associated British Ports on the £310m development of Greenport Hull, a wind turbine production and assembly facility for servicing the offshore market. The development involved major civil engineering works to create new berths and lay down areas at the port, plus the construction of a state-of-the-art blade factory.

76 high-end residences

Advising on the construction of 76 high-end residences at a grade one listed site next to Regents Park. This is a complicated site (with existing residents remaining on part of the site during the redevelopment) with a challenging programme. The procurement is being dealt with on a packaged basis.

Grosvenor Square Limited

Advising Grosvenor Square Limited on the redevelopment of the former US Navy Headquarters at 20 Grosvenor Square, London into 34 super-prime residential apartments.

Arora

Advising Arora on the construction and development funding of the Intercontinental Hotel at O2, Greenwich Peninsula (including one of Europe’s largest ballrooms), a 750 key dual branded Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn Express hotel at Heathrow Terminal 4 and a 355 key hotel directly linked to Terminal 2 at Heathrow.

Legal & General

Advising Legal & General’s flagship Build to Rent Fund on the acquisition and development of various sites including real estate, construction and financing elements. We have recently advised on a 440 unit development in Walthamstow and forward fundings in Salford and Bath.

Brookfield Properties

Advising Brookfield Properties on the development of Principal Place, including the construction and letting of 430,000 sq ft of office space to Amazon for its new headquarters and the development of a 50 storey residential tower. The development is above incoming main lines to Liverpool Street Station so included a significant interface with Network Rail.